House committee
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Membership recorded during the 94th Legislature.
Committee members
Bills pending in this committee
HF5133
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program contingency appropriation established, and report required.
May 11, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4407
Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act modified.
April 16, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4125
Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act modified, and money appropriated.
April 16, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4872
Current and recent foster youth receiving benefits and other income trust established, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated.
April 9, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4870
Minnesota Board of Early Care and Education established, duties and responsibilities provided, rulemaking authorized, reports required, and money appropriated.
April 9, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4732
Responsible social services agencies required to provide luggage for children in foster care.
April 7, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4277
Child care centers video security cameras use requirements modified.
April 7, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4206
Extended foster care services grant program established, reports required, and money appropriated.
April 7, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4136
County share for administrative costs modified for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
April 7, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3542
Disclosure of certain investigations and withholding of payments within 30 days of a request required.
April 7, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4728
Task Force on Early Childhood Educator Licensure established, report required, appointments provided, and money appropriated.
March 26, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4655
Child care center staff training requirements modified.
March 25, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4654
Great start compensation support payments grant program modified.
March 25, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3415
Access to child care center facilities limited.
March 25, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4525
Human services background studies and variances modified, data and language for licensing laws aligned, human services licensing procedures clarified, and program integrity provisions added.
March 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3773
Minnesota supplemental nutrition assistance program established, and money appropriated.
March 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3385
Emergency support food shelves and food banks funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1148
Prepared meals food grant program established, and money appropriated.
March 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4444
Youth intervention program supplemental grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4432
Child care assistance program absent days limit exemption established, and technical changes made.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4420
Correction order requirements modified.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4419
Abusive head trauma training requirements for child care centers modified.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4336
Child care assistance program repealed.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4260
Commissioner's duties related to allocating federal SNAP fiscal disallowances or sanctions modified.
March 18, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4382
Rules governing licensed child care centers and licensed family child care modernized and encoded; and family child care, child care center works, policies, capacity, staff ratios, equipment, notifications, parent access, record keeping, supervision, facilities, health and safety, food and nutrition, and transportation requirements created.
March 16, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4327
Departments of Human Services and Children, Youth, and Families required to provide a report to the legislature on program integrity.
March 16, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4217
Medical assistance allowed to be paid for any person receiving foster care benefits past 18 years of age, terminology and definitions modified, and eligibility criteria and requirements related to extended foster care modified.
March 12, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4182
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches grant funding provided for site selection and property acquisition for a new services and supports facility, and money appropriated.
March 12, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4174
Parent support outreach program funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 12, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3603
Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to request a federal waiver to prohibit the purchase of certain items with SNAP benefits.
March 12, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF4126
Requirements for mandatory reports of child maltreatment modified, and criminal penalties for failure to report child maltreatment modified.
March 9, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3831
SNAP income and asset requirements modified.
March 9, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1915
Child care centers required to use video security cameras to monitor infants and toddlers, and money appropriated.
March 9, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3941
Rally to Read funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 5, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2219
Traditional and gestational surrogacy arrangements regulated, and crime of operating a for-profit surrogacy agency created.
March 2, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3085
Community Mediation Minnesota grant funding provided to administer a statewide family mediation pilot program, and money appropriated.
February 25, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF777
Food shelf program funding provided, and money appropriated.
February 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3665
Out-of-home placement plan requirements modified to include early childhood education and child care programs, and agencies and guardians ad litem required to provide information on early childhood education and child care programs for children in foster care.
February 23, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2305
Child care licensing action accompanied by a maltreatment investigation memorandum required to be publicly posted for ten years.
February 19, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2617
Child care conditional license requirements modified, commissioner directed to create standardized visit timelines and requirements, definition of education amended, background study liaison created, and money appropriated.
February 17, 2026Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1660
Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to conduct a statewide needs assessment for out-of-school and youth programming, report required, and money appropriated.
May 6, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3223
Food assistance funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 22, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1112
Regional food bank grants created, and money appropriated.
April 22, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3196
African Youth Soccer League established, reports required, and money appropriated.
April 21, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF847
Community action grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 10, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2362
Youth intervention programs funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 10, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1383
Program established to assist families with the cost of child care.
April 10, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1002
Head Start funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 10, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3059
Child care assistance program requirements modified, and reports required.
April 7, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2925
Social Services Information System improvements funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 7, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2728
Child care great start compensation support payments modified.
April 7, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2456
Cost-of-living adjustments in maintenance or child support orders repealed, and conforming changes made.
April 7, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1918
Department of Children, Youth, and Families policy language; TEACH early childhood program, great start compensation support payment program, child welfare policies, and out-of-home placement plans updated; and provisions to prevent foster care placements modified.
April 7, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1897
Correction order requirements modified.
April 3, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2939
Implementation dates for provisions of the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act delayed.
April 2, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF470
Early leaning scholarships funding provided, and money appropriated.
April 1, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3009
Multidisciplinary child protection team and its duties modified.
April 1, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF3002
Eligibility requirements for foster care benefits after age 18 modified to include children for whom permanent legal and physical custody is transferred to a relative after age ten.
April 1, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2967
African American Child Well-Being Advisory Council reports modified; reports required; child protection workers, child welfare technology improvements, and Family First Prevention Services Act grants funding provided; and money appropriated.
April 1, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1916
Child care assistance program integrity requirements established; commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to establish an electronic record-keeping system for child care enrollment; reports required; and money appropriated.
April 1, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2929
Eligibility determinations for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households clarified.
March 27, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF102
Circumstances under which the public authority must direct support to an obligee modified.
March 27, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2877
Group family day care child-adult capacity ratios and age distribution restrictions modified.
March 26, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1581
Diaper distribution grant program funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 26, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2732
Rural child care stabilization and support payment program established, report required, and money appropriated.
March 24, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2643
Indication of self-report on child care licensing notifications required.
March 24, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2459
Metro Deaf School grant funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 24, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2175
Medical assistance vendor background checks required; fraud detection system established for Department of Human Services and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families; and reports required.
March 20, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1342
Unrelated individual providing child care to two families exempted from licensure.
March 20, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF897
Protection to children and vulnerable adults from exposure to fentanyl provided, and criminal penalties for violation imposed.
March 17, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF45
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Outreach Program funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1146
Minnesota SNAP step up for seniors program established, and money appropriated.
March 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2191
Children and families licensing and certification regulations modified.
March 12, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1098
Food shelf facilities infrastructure funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 12, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF656
Child care licensing; variances to licensed capacity allowed.
March 11, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2135
Fiscal analysis of child welfare system required; comprehensive child welfare program, practice, and service evaluation required; reports required; and money appropriated.
March 11, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2137
Development and dissemination of informational materials on type 1 diabetes for parents of children in preschool programs required.
March 10, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF2009
Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson funding provided, and money appropriated.
March 6, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1147
School-age care programs authorized to provide services to eligible prekindergarten students.
March 6, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1927
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches funding provided for site selection and property acquisition for a new services and supports facility, and money appropriated.
March 5, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1926
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches grant funding provided for food shelves, and money appropriated.
March 5, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1824
Commissioner of children, youth, and families funding provided to create and implement technology portals to connect individuals with support systems; and money appropriated.
March 5, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1563
Individual income and corporate franchise taxes; subtraction for employer-provided dependent care assistance allowed, and tax credit for employer-provided child care expenses established.
February 27, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1276
Northstar Care for Children benefits modified for children under the age of six and children transferred into Northstar Care for Children.
February 27, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1604
School attendance mandated to a local welfare agency, habitual truant definition modified, and money appropriated for grants to fund child welfare response efforts.
February 26, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1499
Modernization of family child care regulations modified.
February 26, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1336
Child care improvement grants funding provided, and money appropriated.
February 26, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1424
Relative foster care licensing, training, and background study requirements modified; Minnesota family investment program modified; and money appropriated.
February 24, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1300
Commissioner of human services or commissioner of children, youth, and families prohibited from rescinding public assistance benefits due to vaccination status.
February 24, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF655
Family child care capacity limits amended.
February 20, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF776
Family assets for independence program funding provided, and money appropriated.
February 19, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1164
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches funding provided for drop-in support services, and money appropriated.
February 19, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF1158
Diaper distribution program modified.
February 19, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF994
ParentChild+ program funding provided, and money appropriated.
February 17, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF803
Eligibility criteria modified for the voluntary prekindergarten program.
February 17, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF657
Rochester Area Foundation funding provided for the Pamoja Women program, and money appropriated.
February 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF628
Child care staff qualification, staff ratio, and group size licensing standards modified.
February 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF588
Foster children receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits trust established, report required, and money appropriated.
February 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy
HF587
Underperforming school districts required to have their prekindergarten programs evaluated by the Parent Aware program.
February 13, 2025Pending: House Children and Families Finance and Policy